Senior Consultant - Native Mobile Dev (Kotlin)

If your client gave you free rein to shape their mobile experience, what would you build? How would you feel knowing your work is in the hands of thousands of users every day? And what if you could solve real business problems through beautifully crafted native mobile apps?

Established over twenty years ago, we are a growing Melbourne head quartered Software Consultancy with a core focus of delivering business-critical digital products to our clients. Our teams work alongside our customers to dissect their complex problems and convert them into value-driven solutions, combining innovative principles in development, design, analysis and quality automation. We utilise Design Thinking and Agile practices to rapidly create customer and business first software, testing and embracing new technologies and trends along the way.

• Our Senior Mobile Developers become trusted technical advisors, partnering directly with client stakeholders to shape mobile solutions with quality, craftsmanship and clarity. As a Fabric Senior Developer, you’ll lead by example — working hands-on with the team while also guiding our customers toward the right technical decisions.
  
  
  Your key responsibilities as a Senior Consultant – Mobile Developer at Fabric
  

• Work autonomously with a self-driven approach to owning and delivering mobile features end-to-end

• Understand complex business and technical requirements, make informed trade-offs, and communicate clear solutions

• Research and propose technical alternatives that best fit within client constraints and goals

• Apply Android (Kotlin/Compose) technologies to build high-quality mobile experiences and, where appropriate, contribute to cross-platform mobile strategies, including Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) initiatives

• Collaborate closely with other developers, designers, analysts and QA engineers in a highly cross-functional environment

• Implement and advocate continuous delivery best practices to accelerate feature delivery

• Apply testing best practices (unit tests, UI tests) to ensure code quality and maintainability

• Mentor and guide less experienced engineers within Fabric and our clients’ teams

• Advise our clients on mobile architecture, design patterns, libraries, and platform-specific best practices

• Be an ambassador of Fabric’s values and engineering standards

• Participate in hiring activities for mobile roles when required

• Contribute thought leadership content for our marketing and community meetups
  
  The skills you need to be a Senior Consultant – Mobile Developer
  
  For Android Developers
  

• Strong expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and the Android ecosystem

• Experience building and deploying apps using Android Studio, Gradle, and Play Store processes

• Familiarity with Android architectural patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture

• Experience with testing frameworks (JUnit, Espresso), CI/CD and automation tools

• Understanding of Android libraries like Coroutines, Room, Retrofit, Firebase etc.
  
  Across both platforms
  

• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) or a strong understanding of shared business logic, cross-platform architecture, and code-sharing approaches between Android and iOS

• Experience integrating RESTful APIs, mobile security best practices, offline caching, and performance optimisation

• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is an advantage

• Exposure to DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerisation) is a plus

• Experience with QA automation or mobile test frameworks is a bonus

• Comfortable working with Agile methodologies and collaborating in cross-functional teams

• Ability to wear multiple hats throughout the project lifecycle
  
  Your key benefits of being a part of the Fabric team:

  • A variety of business domains to dive into including retail, finance, construction and logistics

  • Creating innovative custom products to solve complex problems that existing solutions just can’t

  • Collaborating with a team of top notch professionals who are obsessed with value, latest tech and the right way to build a digital product

  • Strong support network from the delivery community of practice, leadership and our tech teams to help you address any client challenges you may face

  • Very diverse and inclusive environment where people value feedback, connections and collaboration in a workspace

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

We are committed to providing a workplace that is fair, inclusive, and respectful. Employment decisions are made based on merit, qualifications, and business needs, without discrimination on the basis of gender, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, or any other status protected under applicable local laws. We support reasonable workplace accommodations and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.